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Franschhoek Bastille Festival
11 - 12 July 2009
BOOK TICKETS FOR THE FOOD AND WINE MARQUEE NOW:
Franschhoek, being the French Corner of South Africa, celebrates Bastille Day with reckless abandon. In fact, we like to commemorate our forefathers by celebrating for an entire weekend. We might add that it’s also the only day in the year that you can get away with wearing a beret.
Highlights of the Bastille Festival include a Food & Wine Marquee, a French Film Festival, the Chef’s & Waiters Race, Pêtanque, the Barrel Rolling competition and lots more!
Bastille Day Programme -
Le Franschhoek Bastille Day Masked Ball:
Friday 10 July 2009 R500pp
For Bastille Accommodation packages click here:
Bastille Day Accommodation Packages 09
BOOK TICKETS FOR THE FOOD AND WINE MARQUEE NOW!!!! SAME PRICE AS 2008 - R100:
Franschhoek Woman, Wine & Golf
7-9 August 2009
We will be hosting a 3 day Golf Outing for Woman over the Woman’s day long weekend 7 - 9 August 2009. We will be hosting 80 Woman in Franschhoek’s Top establishments though out the weekend. These women will have a fun filled weekend with Golf Clinics, a Round of Golf on one of SA’s top courses, cocktail evenings, dinners and a food and wine day to ensure this becomes one of their most treasured experiences all while bonding with their Friends!
Golf Clinic – Friday, 7th August 2009:
The golf clinic will consist of golf lessons on the driving range with a professional, a putting competition on the putting greens as well as playing the first hole with the assistance of a golf professional.
Includes arrival tea, coffee, fresh fruit juice (or fruit cocktail) with snack - here the Ladies will also receive a goodie bag with the weekend schedule etc.
Cocktail party The Cocktail Party will be held at Dieu Donne Restaurant – Franschhoek. It will be a classy event with entertainment, snacks, wine and a fun Prize-giving of the Clinic will also take place.
Golf Day – Saturday, 8th August 2009: Ladies will play at Pearl Valley Golf Estate Franschhoek, the day will include the ladies Green fees and golf cart hire, Bag tag, Halfway house lunch and beverage & arrival tea / coffee and snacks Tee times will be confirmed closer to the time – but will be mid-morning, depending on the number of guests we might consider a shotgun or two tee start Pearl Valley will handle the scoring and the prize giving will take place on the night of the gala dinner at Genot
Ladies Dinner: This will take place at the New Genot Restaurant in Franschhoek, it will be a classy affair where Ladies will enjoy an all inclusive 3 course dinner with a guest speaker and some form of entertainment.
Schwartz Jewelers 20% off Bubbly and Canapes Morning -
enjoy canapes and Bubbly while viewing the beautiful array of jewels Schwartz has to offer, with 20% off to all Golfing ladies.
Food & Wine Day - Sunday 9th August 2009:
Held at Bread & Wine Restaurant - Franschhoek The day will include, Coffee on arrival, a Bread making demo with tasters, a Charcuterie demo with tasters and a glass of MCC, followed by a Wine tasting with 3 wines on offer, Lunch, a Bottle of wine per person either Moreson Chenin or Pinehurst Cab Merlot and Water on the table.
Room drops Room drops will be done in the evening while guests are at the cocktail party – room drops will consist of the T shirts and caps to be worn the following day as well as Golf balls.
Total Cost: R2250.00 per player excluding accommodation
Franschhoek Brewers Festival
26 & 27th September 2009
A PROUDLY SOUTH AFRICA MICRO-BREWERY FESTIVAL WITH A BATTLE OF THE "OLDIES" BANDS.
DETAILS TO FOLLOW SHORTLY
Franschhoek Uncorked
10th & 11TH OCTOBER 2009
After a long, cold winter everyone in Franschhoek looks forward to the first day of spring. We’re a town that believes in celebrating and spring is definitely something worth celebrating.
To honor the beginning of this important, and much warmer, season we throw a town wide party. We’ve called this festival Franschhoek Uncorked. It’s a celebration of life and the perfect time for all the Valley’s highly esteemed wineries to showcase their new vintages and releases.
So, come and spend an exciting weekend in Franschhoek, or just visit for the day!
Purchase your access pass for R60pp entitling you to a passport, a glass,a complimentary shuttle service between farms and free tastings of the wines on offer at any of these wineries,and much much more …
Boekenhoutskloof | Boschendal Wines | Cabrière | Chamonix Dieu Donne | Franschhoek Vineyards | GlenWood | Graham Beck Wines Franschhoek |Grande Provence Estate | Haut Espoir | La Bri | La Motte |La Petite Ferme | Landau du Val | Le Manoir de Brendel |L’Ormarins | Lynx Wines | Mont Rochelle Mountain Vineyards | Môreson | Plaisir de Merle | Rickety Bridge Winery | Solms Delta | Topiary Wines & Vrede en Lust
Franschhoek Open Gardens
24th & 25th October 2009
Visit 10 of Franschhoek's most spectacular gardens as they burst into bloom this summer. Most of these gardens have not been open to public viewing before and includes one recently filmed by BBC 'around the world in 80 gardens'.
2009 GARDENS ON SHOW:
1 LA RIVE 29 Dirkie Uys Street, Franschhoek Stunning English country garden filled with swathes of soft pinks, blues and whites. Age of garden: 15 years; new area 6 years
2 LA PROVIDENCE, Andy Higgins
Middagkrans Road, Franschhoek
Large landscaped garden with massed rose beds and beautiful water features.
Age of garden: 11 years
3 Aliki Starke 7 Haumann Street, Franschhoek Medium sized town garden, strikingly laid out with mixed flower beds, boxed areas and secret corners. Age of garden: 4 years
4 Carl & Sonia Atkinson 36 Cabrière Street, Franschhoek Large garden shaded by huge old oaks; lovely herbaceous borders, interesting pond and unusual plantings. Age of garden: 5 years
5 DIE EIKE, Rene & Piet van der Westhuyzen Corner of Akademie and Oak Lodge Street, Franschhoek New farm garden; wide expanses of lawn, rose garden, special features and beautiful mixed borders. Age of garden: new areas 2 years
6 Hennie de Necker 17 L’ Avenue de Franschhoek, Bagatelle Road, Franschhoek A formal town garden full of colour and interesting plantings; it is hard to believe the garden is only one year old. Age of garden: 1 year
7 Fay Bentley 31 Uitkyk Street, Franschhoek A jewel of a small garden; an example of mixed plantings complimenting each other. Age of garden: 6 years
8 KLEIN CHAMPAGNE, Sabine Bosman Robertsvlei Road, Franschhoek Park-like garden, large and shaded river frontage, meandering paths and a lily covered lake. Age of garden: 7 years
9 KLEINHOF, Jacques Botha 33 van Wijk Street, Franschhoek A very different garden – old trees, arbours and thousands of bulb plantings; no lawn. Age of garden: 1 year
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49 Cabrière Street, Franschhoek
A tamed old garden surrounding an historic cottage, quaint and pretty; old almond and pomegranate
trees.
Age of garden: new area 5 years
Enquiries:
Franschhoek Info Office: Tel: (021) 876 2861
R100 per person for a pass: 09:00 - 17:00
Classical Music Festival
31st October - 1 November 2009
Festival Programme 2008
CLASSICAL CONCERT: FRI 24 OCT NGK CHURCH 7:30 pm MUSIC FOR CLARINET
POPULAR PIANO: SAT 25 OCT NGK CHURCH 12:00 noon PLAY, PIANO PLAY!
DINNER ENTERTAINMENT: SAT 25 OCT VINEYARD BRASSERIE 7:00 pm MUSIC FROM THE RUSSIAN TEA LOUNGE
CLASSICAL CONCERT: SUN 26 OCT NGK CHURCH 11:30 am AVE MARIA: MUSIC ON A SUNDAY MORNING
LUNCH ENTERTAINMENT: SUN 26 OCT VINEYARD BRASSERIE 12:30 pm MORE SONGS YOU LOVE
FESTIVAL GARDEN PARTY: SUN 26 OCT LA RIVE 3:30 pm FESTIVAL MUSICIANS PERFORM
Net proceeds will go to local youth charities
The Gem of Franschhoek
- Super Car Rally
7 December 2009
By Invitation only
Franschhoek invites you to join us for the most prestigious of Car Rally’s this country has ever seen. A selection of invited Super Cars will assemble at the Franschhoek Motor museum to rev up their engines in search of The Gems of Franschhoek.
Cars will assemble at the Franschhoek Motor Museum on L’Ormarins Wine Estate in Franschhoek. This is where the Rally will begin and end.
Drivers will compete in teams of 2 with some drivers being teamed up with Celebrities, from TV Personalities to top Wine Makers and Chefs or Sporting Celebrities, from here you will make your way around Franschhoek searching for the Gems that truly represent Franschhoek’s elegance, class, sophistication and style. Couples will be teamed up and the Rally will begin. Each team will comprise of a driver and a route manager. Each team will receive a picnic basket, a map and the 1st clue. From here you are on your own! Teams will have to solve the clue before finding out your next destination. Each clue will have a “help” option where you will be able to go for assistance if cracking the clue proves to challenging.
You will be stopping at 6 different destination collecting “The 12 Gems of Franschhoek” everything from top Bubbly to our world famous Chocolates and cured meats. Once you have collected your 12 Gems at your 6 destinations you will return to L’Ormarins Wine Estate and feast on a scrumptious, elegant picnic of Franschhoek’s Finest with entertainment, sunshine and the feeling of a great challenge being met!
Cost: R3000.00 per car including a light Breakfast, your rally, Picnic Lunch including wine & a goodie bag of Franschhoek’s 12 Gems for you to take home. As the day will begin early and include a few glasses of Bubbly and wine we urge all participants to stay over in Franschhoek. Accommodation is available to suit all.
Franschhoek Open Water Swim
22 NOVEMBER 2009
The 1st race ever to be held in the New Franschhoek Dam. it will be an offical Open Water Swim. 1km; 3km; 5km; 10km & a 500m fun swim.
All details about the Race are still to be Confirmed.
Franschhoek Cap Classique and Champagne Festival
5 - 6 December 2009
In Franschhoek we believe life is about experiences and the best experiences are the ones involving the ‘magic of bubbles’. It’s for this reason that we hold the annual Franschhoek Cap Classique and Champagne Festival. Where the finest South African Cap Classique and French Champagne flows for an entire weekend.
Spend the Champagne festival weekend popping corks, filling flutes, sipping vivacious bubbly and snacking on delicacies prepared by some of the valley’s gourmet masterminds.
Inter-Winelands Sports Day
25th January 2009
Stellenbosch Wineries vs Franschhoek Wineries in a friendly Sports Day held at Groot Drakenstein Games Club in Celebration of 350 years of Wine making in South Africa
Franschhoek Chefs & Champagne Festival
27 - 29 March 2009
This Festival will take the form of Dinners and Lunches were tickets can be bought for a "Chef's Tables" at the Different Bubbly Producers Wineries and Restaurants.
Chefs Tables will be small and intimate the Franschhoek Hosting team will consist of 10 of Franschhoeks Top Chefs teamed up with 10 top Wineries/ Wine makers or restaurants. we will serve Bubbly and/or French Champagne and one will be able to mingle with our top chefs.
Participating Establishments & Chefs:
Le Franschhoek, Gerard van Staden
Cotage Fromage, Duncan Doherety
Haute Cabriere, Matthew Gordan
Dieu Donne, Jo van Staden
Mange Tout, Ryan Smith
Reubens, Reuben Riffel
Le Quartiar Francias, Margot Janse
Bread & Wine, Neil Jewell
Schedule of Events with Costs:
Franschhoek Literary Festival
15 - 17 May 2009
If you love books and beautiful surroundings then you’ll feel right at home at the Franschhoek Literary Festival. See a host of South African and award-winning international authors speak about their passion in venues throughout the village.
They say that words make their own music. When these words are strung together by a writer they develop a magical quality that plays out in a melody, engulfing you in its entirety.
To visit the Literary Festival website click here
A Franschhoek Affair
Every Weekend in June
We’d like to introduce people to the secret places not usually associated with Franschhoek, or that visitors seldom find, exposing them – and our friends and neighbours – to the exceptional talent to be found in our valley.
The idea is to present learning experiences, classes, demonstrations and skills development every weekend in June, bringing people here to enjoy the increasingly popular short breaks that add value and new dimensions to busy lives.
All Bookings are done Directly with the Various Establishments but for any additional information please call Darielle Craddock, Franschhoek Events Co-ordinator on 021 876 2861
to view A Franschhoek Affair Program click here
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